Irish Nationalist activist and military leader, after work in London as a civil servant he was elected to UK parliament in 1918 for South Cork, but his party, Sinn Féin, refused to take their seats. He managed guerrilla warfare against England during the Anglo-Irish War (1919–21), to great success. Collins also directed the intelligence operations of the IRA. In 1920, a £10,000 bounty for his capture or death, making him the most wanted man by the British establishment. After a truce was brought in 1921, he was among those who negotiated the partition of Ireland, an act which he considered his own "death warrant." He was assassinated soon thereafter. Neil Jordan created and directed a film about Collins, Michael Collins (1996), starring Liam Neeson.